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<div class="field field-name-field-blog-featured field-type-file field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><span id="styles-0-0" class="styles file-styles 750px"> <img width="750" height="458" src="http://www.glaad.org/sites/default/files/styles/750px/public/images/2014-06/Fun%2520Home%2520Out%2520Loud%2520Rainbow%2520Radio%2520Covers%25202.jpg?itok=eFN1MWs7" alt="" title="" /></span></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>Two state-funded South Carolina universities are being required to teach about the United States founding documents in retaliation for the fact that the colleges spent funds on LGBT-themed reading materials.</p>
<p>The University of South Carolina Upstate had included lesbian cartoonist Alison Bechdel's graphic memoir <em>Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic </em>on its optional freshman reading list, and the College of Charleston assigned gay poet Ed Madden's <em>Out Loud: The Best of Rainbow Radio </em>as summer reading for its English 101 course.</p>
<p>Although <a href="http://www.glaad.org/blog/sc-may-stop-punishing-universities-assigning-lgbt-reading-material" target="_blank">earlier this year</a> the South Carolina State House had planned to cut the schools' funding by the amounts they spent on the LGBT-themed materials, the State Senate voted to restore the funding <a href="http://www.advocate.com/education/2014/05/14/sc-colleges-lgbt-controversy-may-get-funding-back-strings-attached" target="_blank">with the provision </a>that the money be used to teach students about the United States founding documents and "the study of and devotion to American institutions and ideals."</p>
<p><img height="228" width="300" style="float: left;" class="media-element file-file-styles-300px" src="http://www.glaad.org/sites/default/files/styles/300px/public/images/2014-06/1402665644-Gov_-Nikki-Haley-responded-to-reporters-questions-about-her-veto-message-on-the-state-budget_-Ph.jpg?itok=YkhnmwwV" alt="" />Now South Carolina governor Nikki Haley approved a budget allocation of $52,000 to the College of Charleston and $17,000 to USC Upstate, reflecting the exact amounts the two colleges previously spent on the LGBT-inclusive materials. The funds allocated with the current budget must be spent on courses teaching the country's founding documents, including the Constitution, the Declaration of Independence, and the Federalist papers. On top of this, the schools are mandated to allow students the option to avoid academic material they find “objectionable based on a sincerely held religious, moral, or cultural belief.”</p>
<p>A coalition of organizations, including the National Coalition Against Censorship, American Civil Liberties Union of South Carolina, American Association of University Professors, and American Booksellers Foundation for Freedom of Expression, <a href="http://ncac.org/update/this-compromise-is-not-acceptable-constitutionally-suspect-south-carolina-budget-measure-is-an-assault-on-academic-freedom/" target="_blank">released a statement</a> criticizing the requirements of the state's budget provision, asserting:</p>
<blockquote><p>Such leveraging of public funds with the goal of micromanaging curriculum and excluding disfavored ideas is a destructive assault on academic freedom. It violates the right of faculty to develop curriculum and assign books based on their disciplinary and pedagogical expertise and free of outside political interference by legislators who lack such expertise. <img height="157" width="200" style="float: right;" class="media-element file-file-styles-200px" src="http://www.glaad.org/sites/default/files/styles/200px/public/images/2014-06/Native-American-Banned-Books-e1326817158435_0.jpg?itok=GawBZUn7" alt="" /></p>
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<blockquote><p>Penalizing state educational institutions financially simply because members of the legislature disapprove of specific elements of the educational program is not only educationally unsound, it is constitutionally suspect. The Supreme Court has sent a clear message over decades: lawmakers may not prohibit the expression of ideas simply because they find them to be offensive.</p>
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<p>The budget goes into effect starting July 1.</p>
<p>Read more at <a href="http://www.advocate.com/education/2014/06/17/sc-gov-oks-measure-penalizing-schools-lgbt-curricula" target="_blank">The Advocate. </a></p>
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Tue, 17 Jun 2014 15:55:05 +0000jkatz71352 at http://www.glaad.orghttp://www.glaad.org/blog/south-carolina-schools-punished-spending-state-funds-lgbt-reading-materials#commentsAlison Bechdel and Kate Bornstein to be honored by the Lambda Literary Foundationhttp://www.glaad.org/blog/alison-bechdel-and-kate-bornstein-be-honored-lambda-literary-foundation
<div class="field field-name-field-blog-featured field-type-file field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><span id="styles-1-0" class="styles file-styles 750px"> <img width="350" height="498" id="1" src="http://www.glaad.org/sites/default/files/styles/750px/public/images/2014-04/Bechdel.jpg?itok=TjEma-u8" alt="" title="" /></span></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>Lambda Literary has announced that they will honor Alison Bechdel with the Foundation's Trustee Award for Excellence in Literature and Kate Bornstein with the Pioneer Award at the upcoming 26<sup>th</sup> Annual Lambda Literary Awards in June. Bechdel is the author of award-winning and bestselling graphic memoirs<em> Are You My Mother: A Comic Drama</em> and <em>Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic</em> in addition to the lauded comic strip <em>Dykes to Watch Out For</em>. Bornstein is an author, playwright and performance artist who has written gender studies texts, memoirs, and plays such as <em>My Gender Workbook</em>, <em>A Queer and Pleasant Danger,</em> and <em>The Opposite Sex Is Neither</em>. </p>
<p>The Lambda Literary Awards ("The Lammys") celebrate excellence in LGBT literature. They give awards in 24 genre-specific categories, including "Transgender Fiction," "Bisexual Nonfiction," and "Lesbian Mystery." Nominees include <em>Artifice</em> by Alex Woolfson and Winona Nelson in "LGBT Graphic Novel," <em>Two Boys Kissing</em> by David Levithan in "LGBT Children's/ Young Adult," and <em>sash &amp; trim and other plays</em> by Djola Branner in "LGBT Drama." (Full disclosure: Professor Branner is a spectacular professor and dean at my school, Hampshire College. Congratulations, Djola!) You can see a full list of this year's finalists <a href="http://www.lambdaliterary.org/26th-annual-lambda-literary-award-finalists/">here</a>. <img alt="" class="media-element file-media-original" data-file_info="%7B%22fid%22:%2270202%22,%22view_mode%22:%22media_original%22,%22fields%22:%7B%22format%22:%22media_original%22,%22field_file_image_alt_text%5Bund%5D%5B0%5D%5Bvalue%5D%22:%22%22,%22field_file_image_title_text%5Bund%5D%5B0%5D%5Bvalue%5D%22:%22%22%7D,%22type%22:%22media%22%7D" height="395" src="http://www.glaad.org/sites/default/files/styles/1200px/public/images/2014-04/bornstein.jpg?itok=apIS-olQ" style="float: right; height: 199px; width: 300px;" width="594" /></p>
<p>Winners will be announced at this year's Awards in New York at The Great Hall at Cooper Union on June 2<sup>nd</sup>. Humorist Kate Clinton will host for the third year running. Presenters include A.M. Homes, David Mixner, Urvashi Vaid, Masha Gessen, and many more. For more information on this year's awards, click <a href="http://www.lambdaliterary.org/awards/buy-tickets/">here</a>.</p>
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Tue, 22 Apr 2014 18:49:51 +0000lbeckenstein70704 at http://www.glaad.orghttp://www.glaad.org/blog/alison-bechdel-and-kate-bornstein-be-honored-lambda-literary-foundation#commentsSC legislature punishes colleges for assigning LGBT literaturehttp://www.glaad.org/blog/sc-legislature-punishes-colleges-assigning-lgbt-literature
<div class="field field-name-field-blog-featured field-type-file field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><span id="styles-2-0" class="styles file-styles 750px"> <img width="1406" height="383" id="2" src="http://www.glaad.org/sites/default/files/styles/750px/public/images/2014-03/WM%2520-%2520PMS188.jpg?itok=7iJ4xtQT" alt="" title="" /></span></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>Earlier this month, South Carolina legislators cut funding to two colleges because the professors assigned LGBT-themed litaratre to freshmen to read. Despite attempts, the cuts have not been restored.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.towleroad.com/2014/03/schouse.html">Towleroad reports:</a></p>
<blockquote><p>The South Carolina House refused on Monday to restore book purchasing budget cuts assigned to College of Charleston and University of South Carolina Upstate after the two institutions of higher learning taught literature dealing with homosexual content. Totaling nearly $70,000, the cuts reflect the amount of money the institutions spent on buying texts for the freshman class this year. Some saw the cuts as censorial attempts to limit what can be taught in colleges, while the majority argued vehemently that teaching Alison Bechdel's Fun Home and a book about an LGBT radio station, Out Loud: The Best of Rainbow Radio promoted "a lifestyle" that they do not agree with.</p>
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Thu, 13 Mar 2014 20:06:22 +0000rossmurray70166 at http://www.glaad.orghttp://www.glaad.org/blog/sc-legislature-punishes-colleges-assigning-lgbt-literature#commentsFun Home: a talk with playwright and actor Lisa Kronhttp://www.glaad.org/blog/fun-home-talk-playwright-and-actor-lisa-kron
<div class="field field-name-field-blog-featured field-type-file field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p><em>Editor's Note: This guest post from long-time GLAAD volunteer, Andy Buck, is part of GLAAD's effort to draw more attention to theater projects with LGBT content. Please visit GLAAD's <a href="theater.glaad.org">theater listings site</a> for information about </em><a href="http://nytheater.glaad.org/2013/view.php?id=45">Fun Home</a> <em>and other plays in Los Angeles and New York.</em></p>
<p>By Andy Buck</p>
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<p>This month at <a href="http://www.publictheater.org/component/option,com_shows/task,view/Itemid,141/id,1083">The Public Theater</a> in New York, it’s a meeting of two GLAAD Media Award recipients when Lisa Kron of the legendary Five Lesbian Brothers writes the book for a new musical based on Alison Bechdel’s celebrated graphic novel, <em><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Fun-Home-A-Family-Tragicomic/dp/0618871713/">Fun Home</a></em>. The graphic novel, which received the Outstanding Comic Book award at the 18<sup>th</sup> Annual GLAAD Media Awards, explores the complex relationship between Bechdel, creator of the pioneering comic strip “Dykes to Watch Out For,” and her deeply closeted father. Kron, meanwhile, received a GLAAD Media Award in 2000 for an autobiographical solo play, <em>2.5 Minute Ride</em>, which premiered at The Public, and, coincidentally, also delved into father-daughter themes.</p>
<p>Bechdel and Kron followed up these works with critically acclaimed pieces about their mothers: Bechdel’s <em>Are You My Mother? </em>(2012) and Kron’s <em>Well</em>, which was nominated for a Tony Award in 2006. In addition, Kron received a second award from GLAAD, this time with the Five Lesbian Brothers, for their hilariously caustic play <em>Oedipus at Palm Springs</em>. Clearly, parental issues are rich territory. </p>
<p><em>Fun Home</em>, which is composed by Jeanine Tesori and directed by Sam Gold, is only one of the landmark events for Kron this year. In February, she and Taylor Mac shared the stage in an Obie-winning revival of <em>The Good Person of Szechwan</em>, which has a return engagement this month, also at The Public. Meanwhile, last spring Kron married her partner, Madeleine George, a fellow playwright whose new piece, <em>The (curious case of the) Watson Intelligence</em><em>, opens at Playwrights Horizons next month. </em></p>
<p><strong>What’s been the greatest challenge with <em>Fun Home</em>?</strong></p>
<p>Well, the thing about adaptation is you have to re-originate a thing. You can’t just say, “This is a musicalized version of this graphic novel.” It has to have its own originating impulse, so that you feel like the experience you are having is the primary experience. And at the same time, you don’t feel like you’re watching a different thing, that whatever the effect of the book was, you’ll feel like it’s represented. When we first sent an early draft of it to Alison, I said, “I just want to remind you, it’s going to be really weird because we had to make things up and change details and put things together.” She’s like, “Okay, thanks for reminding me.” But then she wrote us back and said, “Even the things you made up feel true to me.” That was a big relief.</p>
<p><strong>What was one of the specific differences between your script and the original book?</strong></p>
<p>The structure of her book is incredible. It has this emotional drive that takes you from the beginning to the end. It feels like it’s a very straightforward narrative but it’s not. In fact, there are virtually no scenes. There really aren’t. It’s a story of these people who just led their lives for 20 years until this certain thing happened. It’s a retrospective reconsideration of what was in a lot of ways an uneventful childhood. So what is the narrative in theatrical terms?</p>
<p><strong>That’s what you and the composer had to figure out.</strong></p>
<p>Right. What’s the story? What’s the play?</p>
<p><strong>There are compelling similarities between you and Bechdel. You’re of the same generation. You both became well-known in the late 1980s through a certain body of work - you with the Five Lesbian Brothers at the WOW Café, she with “Dykes to Watch Out For.” And then you both broke new ground with highly acclaimed works that explored your respective relationships with your parents. What would you say are other important similarities between you?</strong></p>
<p>The first thing I would say—neither one of us was ever particularly interested in coming out stories. We make work that just assumes a lesbian perspective. For me, that came out of what was true at the WOW Café. We started from a place of assuming our outness, and then we moved on to other things. We talked about whatever we wanted to from that starting place. That’s been extremely empowering. Also, both of us are interested in the narratives that people create for themselves. And I think that both of us assume that those narratives are constructed—in <em>2.5 Minute Ride</em> and in <em>Well</em> and in <em>Fun Home</em> and in <em>Are You My Mother?</em> Those works are saying, “What narrative am I constructing and am I right about that narrative? Or am I not? What am I leaving out? How can I be rigorous with myself and figure out a truer narrative?” </p>
<p><strong>This is the first musical you’ve written, although you used to joke about one you wanted to make with the Five Lesbian Brothers. What was it called?</strong></p>
<p>Yes. <em>Big Heavy-Handed Message from Five Angry Lesbians Who Are Too Ugly to Get Men: An Evening of Song</em>.</p>
<p><strong>That’s the one. I’m still looking forward to that, by the way. Any chance of a reunion?</strong></p>
<p>We would love to. But two of the Brothers live in California now; one of them has a bunch of horses, the other one a child. Back then, we were young, we worked day jobs, and then every night and every weekend we were together making shows. That only works as long as being one of the Five Lesbian Brothers is your number one priority. Once you have a relationship or a mortgage or a child, that just can’t be the case anymore. But our plays are published and they get done all the time. We have a little bit of a nest egg that maybe at some point will help us finance something.</p>
<p><strong>Working in an ensemble like that must have been great training for writing a musical.</strong></p>
<p>Yes, I learned a lot about collaboration! I heard George Wolfe speak at the Dramatists Guild Convention in Chicago recently, and he had a great quote: “Collaboration is not compromise. It’s a bunch of really smart people in a room together, bringing in really amazing ideas, grappling with them, and together making something better than any of them could make individually.” And that was my experience with the Brothers. It was hard for me when I started. I was like, “No, no, no, I know the best, it won’t work like that.” And the Brothers would say, “You have to be quiet now. We’re going to just try it.” And I’d be like, “There’s no need to try it, I can tell you it’s not going to work.” And then we would try it. And I’d be like… “Huh. How interesting.” That process is just profoundly engaging in the deepest and best way.</p>
</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-pubdate field-type-datetime field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><span class="date-display-single">October 15, 2013</span></div></div></div>
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Tue, 15 Oct 2013 17:39:59 +0000summerluk68538 at http://www.glaad.orghttp://www.glaad.org/blog/fun-home-talk-playwright-and-actor-lisa-kron#commentsAlison Bechdel Earns Raves For New Bookhttp://www.glaad.org/2008/12/03/alison-bechdel-earns-raves-for-new-book
<div class="field field-name-field-blog-featured field-type-file field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>Graphic novelist <strong>Alison Bechdel</strong> has just released <strong><em>The Essential Dykes to Watch Out For</em></strong>, a collection of her popular weekly comic strip, <em>Dykes to Watch Out For</em>. And she's gotten a huge write up in the <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/03/books/03garner.html?_r=2&amp;amp;scp=1&amp;amp;sq=dykes%20to%20watch%20out%20for&amp;amp;st=cse"><em>New York Times</em></a>, to boot!</p>
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For 20 years, Bechdel has been writing and creating a comic strip about lesbian life that has appeared mostly in alternative newspapers. <em>Dykes to Watch Out For</em> follows a group of women who are smart, funny and have a lot of sex (or at least want to).</p>
<p>According to the <em>Times</em>:</p>
<blockquote><p>"If you are, with this volume, coming to Ms. Bechdel’s comic strips for the first time, you’ll notice a few things pretty quickly. For one, sex happens. There are a lot of naked cartoon women here — gloriously naked cartoon women: fat, thin, young, old, black, white. They are real women, many with ample armpit hair and zits on their shoulders. These lesbians aren’t Bambi, Betty or Veronica."</p></blockquote>
<p><a href="http://glaadblog.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/dtwof-600.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-4538" title="DykesToWatchOutFor" src="http://glaadblog.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/dtwof-600-300x175.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="175" /></a>Journalist Dwight Garner continues, "Bechdel observes in her introduction to this new anthology... it was not especially easy to be openly lesbian back in 1983, when she published her first cartoon. 'We had no <em>L Word</em>,’ she writes. 'We had no lesbian daytime TV hosts. We had no openly lesbian daughters of the creepy vice president. We had <em>Personal Best</em>, and we liked it.'"</p>
<p>To read the glowing review in its entirety, please click <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/03/books/03garner.html?_r=1&amp;amp;scp=1&amp;amp;sq=dykes%20to%20watch%20out%20for&amp;amp;st=cse">here</a>.</p>
<p><em>The Essential Dykes to Watch Out For</em> is in stores now.<br /></p><div align="left">
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<li class="field-item even"><a href="/issues/entertainment">Entertainment</a></li>
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<li class="field-item even"><a href="/tags/alison-bechdel">Alison Bechdel</a>, </li>
<li class="field-item odd"><a href="/tags/books">Books</a>, </li>
<li class="field-item even"><a href="/tags/comic">comic</a>, </li>
<li class="field-item odd"><a href="/tags/comic-books">comic books</a>, </li>
<li class="field-item even"><a href="/tags/dykes-watch-out">Dykes to Watch Out For</a>, </li>
<li class="field-item odd"><a href="/tags/essential-dykes-watch-out">The Essential Dykes to Watch Out For</a></li>
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Wed, 14 Sep 2011 20:15:08 +0000glaad31427 at http://www.glaad.orghttp://www.glaad.org/2008/12/03/alison-bechdel-earns-raves-for-new-book#comments